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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2010-11-22 00:26:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2010-11-22 00:26:08 +0100 |
| commit | 6bd212771129d00cf7b42d6774a6b81547569384 (patch) | |
| tree | 1787eab1036eecba325682c6437bc8439f18b537 /man/os-release.xml | |
| parent | be8088a2fb41467f66978f86b11bf47c546f24ed (diff) | |
man: make clear that VERSION and VERSION_ID is not mandatory in os-release.5
Diffstat (limited to 'man/os-release.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/os-release.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index c6eb28f395..b5f42b2eec 100644 --- a/man/os-release.xml +++ b/man/os-release.xml @@ -167,9 +167,15 @@ <para>If you interpreting this file from code or a shell script, use the ID and VERSION_ID fields. When - looking for an OS indetification string for + looking for an OS identification string for presentation to the user use the PRETTY_STRING field.</para> + + <para>Note that operating system vendors may choose + not to provide version information, for example to + accomodate for rolling releases. In this case VERSION + and VERSION_ID may be unset. Applications should not + rely on these fields to be set.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> |